, without
great detriment to the book. I have also had to sacrifice, for obvious
reasons, all the poetic contributions to the original, signed by such
great masters of modern Russian poetry as Balmont, Bunin, Z. Hippins,
Sologub, and Shchepkina-Kupernik.

My thanks are due to Dr. Louis S. Friedland and Professor Earle F.
Palmer for going over a considerable portion of the present volume.

A. YARMOLINSKY.

CONTENTS

MAXIM GORKY, Russia and the Jews 3

LEONID ANDREYEV, The First Step 19

VLADIMIR KOROLENKO, Mr. Jackson's Opinion on the
Jewish Question 37

PAUL MILYUKOV, The Jewish Question in Russia 55

M. BERNATZKY, The Jews and Russian Economic Life 77

PRINCE PAUL DOLGORUKOV, The War and the Status of the Jew 95

MAXIM KOVALEVSKY, Jewish Rights and Their Enemies 103

DMITRY MEREZHKOVSKY, The Jewish Question as a Russian
Question 115

VYACHESLAV IVANOV, Concerning the Ideology of the
Jewish Question 125

MAXIM GORKY, The Little Boy, a Story 133

FYODOR SOLOGUB, The Fatherland for All 143

VLADIMIR SOLOVYOV, On Nationalism 155

COUNT IVAN TOLSTOY, Concerning the Legal Status of
the Jews 159

LEONID ANDREYEV, The Wounded Soldier, a Story 165

CATHERINE KUSKOVA, How to Help? 171

S. YELPATYEVSKY, The Homeless Ones 181

MICHAEL ARTZIBASHEF, The Jew, a Story 193

RUSSIA AND THE JEWS

_Alexey Maksinovich Pyeshkov, better known under the assumed name
of Maxim Gorky, was born in 1869. In 1905 he was arrested and
imprisoned because of his political convictions. After the
revolutionary days of 1906 he left Russia and settled on the
island of Capri. At the beginning of the present war he returned
to Russia and took an active part in the public life of the
country. He is at present residing in Petrograd, where he edits a
monthly of distinctly radical tendencies._

THE SHIELD

RUSSIA AND THE JEWS

BY MAXIM GORKY

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